ESET Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Gartner defines an endpoint protection platform (EPP) as security software designed to protect managed endpoints — including desktop PCs, laptop PCs, virtual desktops, mobile devices and, in some cases, servers — against known and unknown malicious attacks. EPPs provide capabilities for security teams to investigate and remediate incidents that evade prevention controls. EPP products are delivered as software agents, deployed to endpoints, and connected to centralized security analytics and management consoles. EPPs provide a defensive security control to protect end-user endpoints against known and unknown malware infections and file-less attacks using a combination of security techniques (such as static and behavioral analysis) and attack surface reduction capabilities (such as device control, host firewall management and application control). EPP prevention and protection capabilities are deployed as a part of a defense-in-depth strategy to help reduce the endpoint attack surface and minimize the risk of compromise. EPP detection and response capabilities are used to uncover, investigate and respond to endpoint threats that evade security protection, often as a part of broader threat detection, investigation and response (TDIR) capable products.

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ESET PROTECT Platform

ESET

System Engineer - It Incharge

We are using Eset Product for the last 12 years in our organization and we are very much satisfied because the product has lowest impact on memory usage and system performance compared to other leading antivirus solutions.

<50M USD

50M - 250M USD

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

250M - 500M USD

500M - 1B USD

1B - 3B USD

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees

3B - 10B USD

30B + USD

10B - 30B USD

Gov't/PS/ED 50,000 + Employees

IT Security & Risk Management Associate

ESET itself is a good tool, but it has a lot of problems with updating agents, remote logs collection,settings and creates a lot of false positive in the case of reconnassance in ESET Inspect. Additionally, it has very little possibility of integration with other tools.

Support Worker

As a user, what stands out about ESET security is that as security software, I've barely noticed its presence on my machine. There are no intrusive popups or interruptions to my day-to-day use, and the software interface is easy to use and understand.

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AhnLab

ESET® is a global, science-driven digital security company based in the European Union that has been researching malware and innovating technology for more than 30 years. ESET’s proven, multi-layered approach to cybersecurity combines long pioneered machine learning, a cloud-powered reputation system and human expertise to power the prevention, detection and response ESET PROTECT Platform. 
  
From modern endpoint and mobile security to extended detection and response, encryption and authentication, cloud-based threat defense, preventing unknown threats as well as comprehensive security services, ESET’s solutions unobtrusively protect and monitor 24/7. This allows defenses to be updated in real time to keep businesses and users safe – all managed via cloud-based or on-premises security management. 

For more than 30 years we have been here helping to watch over and protect progress.  Over a billion users worldwide rely upon ESET√¢‚Ç¨‚Ñ¢s solutions to stay secure from increasingly sophisticated digital threats. ESET√Ç¬¥s award-winning IT security software and services provide protection in over 200 countries and territories worldwide, with its software localized into more than 30 languages. 

Meanwhile, the world continues to move forward at pace. When ESET was founded, the Internet was in its infancy. Now technology is part of everything we do and is central to the continued advancements in our society. Most of the time technology does just what it is supposed to, but in order to ensure continued progress in the digital age we need someone to question what√¢‚Ç¨‚Ñ¢s going on in the background.

And that√¢‚Ç¨‚Ñ¢s why we are here √¢‚Ç¨‚Äú to continue protecting technology from threats,√Ç¬†enabling everyone to fully embrace it√¢‚Ç¨‚Ñ¢s potential and rely on it.√Ç¬†
Put simply - when technology enables progress, ESET is here to protect it.

ESET√Ç¬†- Progress.√Ç¬†Protected.

Visit www.eset.com to learn more


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Favorable Review

Easy to understand protection that doesn't get in your way.

Critical Review

Strong Protection but ESET Faces Challenges With Updates, Logging, And Third-Party Integrations

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